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Radiohead

By • Jul 1st, 2008 • Category: gigs

My girlfriend hates Radiohead. She thinks that Thom Yorke sounds like he’s being tortured, and that their songs are depressing. She’s wrong, obviously, because I came away from Glasgow Green on Friday night elated at having just seen the best (and most carbon-neutral, apparently) band in the world put in a performance that it almost [...]



The French Wives

By • Jun 14th, 2008 • Category: gigs, jrgigs

It’s always refreshing to see a young local band who seem happy to be a bit different, and as singer Stuart Dougan declared half way througout this promising set at Nice and Sleazy’s that it was “trombone time”, it was confirmed that Glasgow’s The French Wives are such a band.